Synopsis
Summer, New York City. A college girl falls hard for a guy she just met. After a night of partying goes wrong, she goes to wild extremes to get him back.
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Cast
- Morgan SaylorLeah
- Brian MarcBlue
- Justin BarthaKelly
- Chris NothGeorge
- Bobbi Salvör MenuezKatie
- Adrian MartinezLloyd
- Anthony RamosKilo
- Ralph RodriguezNene
- Annabelle Dexter-JonesAlexa
- Eden MarryshowUndercover Cop
Recommendations
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The Playlist
It’s exciting as a raw, provocative, and vividly realized cinema of sensation. Wood doesn’t invite us to observe White Girl so much as she invites us to involve ourselves in its drama. - 83
IndieWire
Elizabeth Wood’s fire-breathing debut is an adrenalized shot of ecstasy and entitlement, a fully committed cautionary tale that’s able to follow through on its premise because — like the remarkable young actress who plays its heroine — the film is unafraid of being utterly loathsome. - 80
The Guardian
Buttons will definitely be pushed by White Girl, but after the moral panic hopefully people will still be talking about the film itself. - 80
ScreenCrush
Unafraid to expose her character's weaknesses and degradation, White Girl establishes Wood as a brazen new talent to watch. - 70
The Hollywood Reporter
Seductive and repellent by turns, it’s a title that will provoke fierce love-or-hate reactions, but there’s no question it augurs the arrival of a powerful, audacious new directorial talent. - 60
The New Yorker
The movie persuasively depicts the appallingly casual reduction of a woman’s body to a commodity and the oppressive inequalities of a justice system that clobbers the poor and the nonwhite into desperate submission. The power of these premises makes the movie’s vain sensationalism all the more unfortunate. - 58
The Film Stage
I admire the tenacity and fearlessness of Wood to take on these issues head-on. In a playground of stripped-down indies of rough edges, encouraging sparse narratives, understatement and minimalism, Elizabeth Wood has made a film that feels fresh even if it offers little introspection and commentary on the fire that it plays with. And thus is the flaw of White Girl. - 50
Variety
As much as White Girl has to offer in raw immediacy, it lacks the distance to offer much in the way of meaningful commentary, distinguishing itself (for the worse) from such earth-shaking social critics as Bret Easton Ellis and Harmony Korine.
